Shingling-bracket.



No. 674,756. Patented May 2|, 1901..

J. 8. CA LT.

SHINGLING KET.

\Applicauon filed Feb. 23, 1901.)

(NuMudeL) llnirnn STATES ATENT union.

JOSEPH B. CASEBOLT, OF MOUNT STERLING, WVISCONSIN.

SHlNGLlNG-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 674,756, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed February 23, 1901. $erial No. 48,572. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. OAsEBoLT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Sterling, in the county of Crawford and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingling-Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates improvementsin shinglers adjustable straight-edge brackets, and more particularly to one by the use of which the user may predetermine accurately the length of that part of the shingle to be exposed to the weather.

The chief object of my invention is the production of a shinglers adjustable straightedge bracket which by its use will dispense with the employment of the rule,pencil,chalk, and chalk-line, and thereby economize time and labor.

Another object of the invention is to enable the user to employ in connection with the same any piece of material having one edge straight-as a piece of flooring, ceiling, casing, corner-board, two-by-four, or furrowing-strip-regardless of width at either end.

The invention has other objects in view, and comprises certain other combinations, constructions, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a shinglers bracket embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a roof, illustrating the application of my improved bracket. Fig. 8 is a similarviewillustrating the application of the improved bracket to the first or eaves course of shingles. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a slight modification. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views illustrating the roughened contiguous faces of the upper and lower plates, respectively; and Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional View of a slight modification.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates my improved shinglers straightedge bracket,Which consists of an upper plate 2, a lower plate 3, and means 4 for securing the upper and lower plates together. The upper plate 2 is preferably formed of a flat strip of material and corrugated or roughened, as at 5 in Fig. 6, on its lower face, and one end of said strip, as 6, is preferably bent at right angles to the part 2 which bent portion forms a support for the straight edge, as 7. The lower plate 3 is formed of a similar strip, but preferably longer than strip or plate 2, corrugated or roughened on one face thereof, as 8, adapted to engage the roughened face 5 of plate 2, whereby the parts are prevented from any possibility of slipping when secured together by securing means 4:- Plate 3 is bent intermediate its length, forming a shoulder, as 9, which in operation is adapted to abut against a shingle, as 10, while the portion 11, extending beyond shoulder 9 of plate 3, is passed beneath said shingle and above the shingle of the course below. A veryimportant feature of portion 11 is the provision of graduations, as 12, on one edge of the same, as will be hereinafterfullydisclosed. Securingmeansa preferably comprises a collar, as 13, surrounding a portion of plates 2 and 3, and a bolt or thumb-screw, as 16, for pressing the parts together. A cam-lever, as 17, may be pi votally secured to one end of bolt 16 for operating the same, and this construction I prefer to the use of a thumb-screw, for the reason that its operation is much quicker and more effectual in operation. I may secure the cam-lever directly to bolt 16, as shown in Fig. 8, in which construction I prefer to employ elongated registering slots, as 18 and 19, in the lower and upper plates, respectively, and in this construction I dispense with the collar 13. I preferably form an aperturein the end of cam-lever17 for receiving any securing means, as a bolt, to be passed therethrough and through a registering perforation in the upper end of bolt 16, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 8. The elongated slots in the upper and lower members are adapted to permit an adjustment of upper member 2 not only the length of its slot, but also for the length of the slot in lower member 3, longitudinally of said lower member. I may also construct the collar 13 with a bolt or rivet, as 520, for uniting the upper edges thereof. In this form the cam-lever 17 is secured by passing the bolt 20 therethrough.

In operation when the parts are assembled all that is necessary to separate them is to lift cam-lever 17 to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4:, and the collar will thereby be free to be removed and the parts separated. In the construction shown in Fig. 5 the thumb-screw 16 may simply be loosened by turning and the parts separated, and in the form illustrated in Fig. 8 cam-lever 17 may be raised and revolved until nut, as 21, is disengaged from the threads of bolt 16, and the parts may be separated without further operation. To reassem ble the parts,the rou ghened faces of plates 2 and 3 are brought together and the plates passed through collar 13 and cam-lever or thumb-screw tightened upon the same. In assembling the parts shown in Fig. 8 the plates 2 and 3 are brought together, with slots 18 and 19 registering, bolt 16 is passed therethrough and threaded into nut 21, and lever 17 is pressed down upon the upper plate, thereby firmly locking the parts together.

The many advantages of my improved straight-edge shingling-bracket will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. In shingling a roof with the use of my improved bracket the first double or eaves course of shingles will of course be first placed. One shingle, with a superimposed shingle, is secured at one end of the roof and two other shingles are similarly secured to the lower edge of the other end of the roof, and as my improved brackets are always used in pairs one is secured beneath the shingles at either end of the roof by passing part 11 thereunder, the part 6 having previously been locked in the same plane as the shoulder 9. A strip of material, as 7, having at least one straight edge, is secured between the ends of the shingles and part 6 at both ends of the roof, whereby the straight edge forms an abutment against which all of the intermediate double course of shingles may rest when being secured to the roof, thereby producing a perfectly straight line of shingling.

After the double or eaves course is complete the parts of my bracket are altered slightly with respect to each other, and the utility of the graduations 12 becomes apparent. The operation of one bracket at one end of the roof must of necessity be the same as that at the opposite end, and therefore the operation of one only will be described. The edge of the strip of material 7 is placed against the part 6, which part is moved backward or forward,

according to the width of the strip 7 and also 1 according to the amount of exposure of the lower end of the shingle desired, the distance of said movement being governed by the graduations 12-that is to say, the edge of the strip 7, which is to form the abutment of the lower ends of the next course of shingles, is placed upon that mark of grad nations 12 which indicates the width of the exposure of the lower end of the shingle, and the part 6 is brought against the opposite edge of strip 7 and locked there by means of cam-lever 17.

Part 11 is then passed beneath a shingle, as shown in Fig. 2, in such manner as to cause said shingle to abut against shoulder 9, and the parts are in an operable condition. The shingler has only to abut the lower ends of the next upper course of shingles against the upper edge of strip 7 and he will have an accurate alinement of shingles and at exactly the proper distance above the course below. A very important feature of this invention is the adaptability of the bracket to any width of strip 7, or even to a strip which is wider at one end than at the other, the difference in width of said strip being taken up by an adjustment of the bracket.

Another very important feature of my invention is the fact that it may be applied and operated without auxiliary securing means, the clamping tendency of the upper and lower shingles between which the part 11 is passed being such as to firmly hold the bracket in position, thereby obviating the use of the heretofore objectionable securing means employed, whereby the shingle was marred, scratched, or split, thereby tending to lessen the efficiency of said shingle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A shinglers straight-edge bracket designed for carrying a straight-edge for use in laying shingles, comprising in its construction a main body portion having a downwardly-extending shoulder intermediate its ends, the portion of the said member forward of the shoulder being of considerable length so as to be passed a considerable distance up under a shingle to be clamped thereby, a, member resting on top of said main body in rear of its shoulder and parallel to said main bodyand formed with a right-angled portion forming a bracket, said upper member being adjustable with respect to said main body, and means for clamping said upper member and main body together, substantially as described.

2. A shinglers straight-edge bracket designed for carrying a straight-edge for use in laying shingles, comprising in its construction a main body portion having a downwardlyextending shoulder intermediate its ends, the portion of the said main body forward of the shoulder being of considerable length so as to pass a considerable distance up under a shingle to be clamped thereby, a member adjustably secured to and resting upon said main body in rear of said shoulder and parallel to said main body and provided with a right-angled portion forming a bracket for a straightedge, means for clamping said main body and said upper member together, and graduations formed upon the portion of said main body in front of said shoulder, whereby said upper member is adapted to be adjusted relative to said graduations, substantially as described.

3. A shinglers straight-edge bracket, comprising in its construction a main body portion provided with a shoulderintermediate its ends, a member adjust-ably secured to said main body and provided with a support for a straight-edge, and means for securing said main body and said member together and adapted to be adjusted longitudinally of said main body and of said member, substantially as described. I

4. A shinglers straight-edge bracket, comprising in its construction a main body portion formed with an elongated slot, a shouldered portion formed intermediate the length of said body, a member parallel to said body and formed with an elongated slot adapted to register with the slot in said body, securing means passed through said registering slots and adapted to secure the body and parallel member together, and a cam-lever secured to said securing means, whereby said parallel member may be locked at various points of the length of said body, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a strip of material having one straight edge, of a shinglers straight-edge bracket adapted to hold said strip in such relation to the roof being shingled as to present a perfectly straight and accurate alinement for the lower ends of said shingles, comprising a main body, a shoulder intermediate its length, graduations from the shoulder outward on said body, a parallel member provided with an extension at right angles thereto, and means for locking said parallel member at various points of the length of said body, whereby the length of that portion of the shingles to be exposed may be predetermined, and, when in operation, that portion of the main body provided with graduations being adapted to be passed between an upper and a lower shingle, the upper shingle abutting against said shoulder, the parts being thereby retained in operative position without auxiliary securingmeans, substantially as described.

6. A shinglers straight-edge bracket, comprising in its construction a main body portion formed with an elongated slot, a member parallel to said body and formed with an elongated slot adapted to register with the slot in said body, means for supporting a straightedge carried by said parallel member, securing means passed through said registering slots and adapted to secure the body and parallel member together, and means for looking said parallel member at various points of the length of said body, whereby said parallel member is capable of adjustment longitudinally of said main body for the length of both of said slots, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH B. OASEBOLT.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. FLETCHER, EDGAR M. KIToHIN. 

